David Seamon, Ph.D.

David Seamon is an environment-behavior researcher and Professor of Architecture at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. His research and writings focus on the ways that the natural and built environments contribute to human well-being. Key themes in which Seamon is interested include:

Human aspects of design;

Place and place-making;

The nature of environmental and architectural experience;

Environmental and architectural aesthetics;

Artistic media as a means for understanding environment, place, and nature;

The "phenomenology of nature" developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;

Phenomenology as a method of inquiry in the human sciences and environment-behavior research.

Seamon’s books include: A Geography of the Lifeworld; Dwelling, Place and Environment (edited with Robert Mugerauer); Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing; and Goethe’s Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature (edited with Arthur Zajonc). He edits Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, which in 2014 marked twenty-five years of publication. www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/.

Many of Dr. Seamon’s published articles and chapters are available at https://ksu.academia.edu/DavidSeamon. Also available at that link are all issues of ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, which celebrated twenty-five years of publication in 2014.